Month: October 2019

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Behind AT&T's plan to take on Netflix, Apple and Disney with HBO Max

October 25, 2019 admin Comments Off on Behind AT&T's plan to take on Netflix, Apple and Disney with HBO Max

WarnerMedia executives want “Circe” to unleash a different power: attracting young viewers to the company’s belated entry in the streaming-video war. HBO Max, which will be HBO plus movies, original shows, and TV classics such “Friends,” will be available starting this spring to 10 million AT&T customers who are also HBO subscribers in the United States at no extra charge, according to AT&T Chief Operating Officer John Stankey, who disclosed the figures for the first time in an interview with Reuters. …read more […]

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FOCUS-Biogen's secret campaign to bring its Alzheimer's drug back from the ashes

October 25, 2019 admin Comments Off on FOCUS-Biogen's secret campaign to bring its Alzheimer's drug back from the ashes

Biogen Inc’s shock decision this week to bring its experimental Alzheimer’s drug back from the scrap heap was born out of “top secret” meetings, non-disclosure agreements and six months of hashing over trial data with scientists, regulators and statisticians, researchers told Reuters. Biogen had announced in March that it would terminate two large clinical trials of aducanumab because they were likely to fail. In the months that followed, Biogen kept its own trial investigators and committee overseeing the trial in the dark about the possibility that some patients had benefited from high doses of the therapy, researchers told …read more […]

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Indonesia report on 737 MAX crash faults Boeing design, says Lion Air made mistakes

October 25, 2019 admin Comments Off on Indonesia report on 737 MAX crash faults Boeing design, says Lion Air made mistakes

Boeing , acting without adequate oversight from U.S. regulators, failed to grasp risks in the design of cockpit software on its 737 MAX airliner, sowing the seeds for a Lion Air crash that also involved errors by airline workers and crew, Indonesian investigators found.

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